Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCurve to secure DNS)

Marc Petit-Huguenin <petithug@acm.org> Wed, 24 February 2010 21:48 UTC

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On 02/24/2010 01:14 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> At 8:50 PM +0000 2/24/10, Tony Finch wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Shane Kerr wrote:
>>>
>>> DNSSEC declares out of scope:
>>>       * the channel where DS records get added to the parent
>>
>> Is that actually out of scope or just not specified yet?
> 
> What part of DNSCurve did you think was "specified" yet? It's described on a web site that is not versioned. 

The web site is at version 2009.06.22

To date, the authors and his fans have not produced an Internet Draft, even
after a bit of prodding.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dempsky-dnscurve-00


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